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UW Oshkosh Chancellor Andrew Leavitt and Provost Edwin Martini addressed the impact of staff layoffs and the university’s restructuring plans moving forward during a town hall on Nov. 2. The university ended fiscal year 2023 with $15.7 million of debt, Leavitt said during the town hall. In that year, UWO brought in more than $43...

Throughout the UW Oshkosh campus, there is a wide variety of plant life found on the campus grounds. The variety of plants included comes from the Sustainability Institute, which helps upkeep these plants on campus.  Bradley Spanbauer, the sustainability director for the Sustainability Institute for Regional Transformations (SIRT), said the variety of plant life includes...

UW Oshkosh will be hosting an event, ‘Climate Change: Crisis or Not? What is the solution?,’ a title a UWO professor views as problematic. The event is sponsored by Freedom of Expression, a fund of the UW Oshkosh Foundation, and features speakers Robert Bryce and Steve Nieland. In a press release from the university the...

The UW Oshkosh Sustainability Institute for Regional Transformations (SIRT) will host a series of events this month that celebrate sustainability through education and taking action against climate change.   The events go through April 28, spanning across both Earth Day on April 22 and Arbor Day on April 28. Programs will address sustainability through several disciplines...

UW-Oshkosh Earth Month Stephanie Spehar is the Director of the Sustainability Institute for Regional Transform...

Portrait of the United States as a Developing Country from Boston Review. Dispelling myths of entrepreneurial exceptionalism, a sweeping new history of U.S. capitalism finds that economic gains have always been driven by the state.